Re: tlug: OpenSSL and Crypto patents

["Austin K. Kurahone" <austin@example.com>]

Chris wrote:
>OpenSSH's very existence is on shaky legal ground, the last I heard.
>It's based on a rather ancient version of ssh v1 that had a license that
>could be vaguely construed to be compatible with the BSD license.
Hmm, darn.  I can't afford a lawsuit or anything like that now, so I guess
I'll just have to stick with lsh (Check Freshmeat) the GPL'd ssh2
implementation. (Yes I know that it's still incomplete, that's why I
build ssh2 on all my boxes ;-)

>Imagine Dan Bernstein on serious hallucinogens, and you'll be close ;)
Damn, that's a scary thought....

Austin K. Kurahone
Tokyo Linux Users Group
"It didn't matter.  Not when all mistakes could be left behind at twelve hundered miles per hour."  --Ringworld

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